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Perhaps appropriately, the rockets from the formerly classless society will loft decidedly proletariat payloads. O.S.S.S. hopes to mass manufacture satellites known as CubeSats, boxes measuring 4 in. a side that can be bought and launched for less than $45,000. Up to 100 CubeSats could go aloft on one SS-18 and be used for anything from experimental sensors for university science students to Internet relay stations to resting places for the ashes of a loved...
Take, for example, Al Gore's nonsense about how he will "keep the prosperity going." This is akin to the airline passenger's illusion that by gripping the armrests tightly, he is keeping the 747 aloft. No. The Clinton-Gore administration had the luck to be born at the takeoff of an immense technological revolution. The idea that Clinton-Gore created the fruits and abundance thereof is magic thinking of a childish kind. It seems especially silly considering the billions and billions in All-Daddy, big-state promises that Gore has made - the chicken in every pot, the government...
...HarperCollins), which has also made an appearance on the Times list. The book ponders such weighty thoughts about balloons as: "Are they always alone?/ Do they meet up in pairs?/ Do they ever get married and make balloon heirs?" The ebullient watercolor illustrations by Laura Cornell keep the book aloft in high style...
...court, the fans simply started their own fun, cheerfully ribbing U.S. men's champs Kevin Garnett and Alonzo Mourning - who was so taken by Sydney that he gave the city's name to his newborn daughter, Myka Sydney - as the towering duo sat in the stands holding aloft a hand-drawn sign more suited to a junior-high pep rally: USA Came Down Under, Got Gold...
...water skiing. Her coach, Glen Birdwell, says Karenna repeatedly skied after hitting the water so hard that she broke her ribs. And during one dry summer, when rattlesnakes began coming into the lake and the male skiers began to scream and scatter, Karenna grabbed a snake and held it aloft, its venomous mouth clamped in her grip...